Top 10 Signs That Your Teacher Is A Geek

The founder of Fractus Learning, Nick Grantham is an Australian educator living and working in Dublin, Ireland. With a background in education, engineering and digital product development, Nick launched Fractus Learning to connect people with a shared passion for technology and how it can bring education to life.

The label of geek is thrown around a lot these days. But truly what is a geek? And is it a term you should be proud to associative yourself with, or should you take offence?

A digital-technology expert or enthusiast (a term of pride as self-reference, but often used disparagingly by others)

Geek used to be a title reserved for professions such as IT, Software Development and Electronics. But now, as technology intrudes on nearly every aspect of life, the line is blurring and geeks are making their way into nearly every profession.

So how do you know if geeks have infiltrated your school? Or even more concerning, how do you know you have not become one yourself? To help unearth the technology elite in your school, here are the top 10 signs that your teacher is a geek:

1.

Your teacher continually swipes the bottom of the blackboard to make it unlock

You can tell your teacher is a geek by the fact that he/she can’t spell
You can see what lesson is up next by checking your teachers Facebook status

TEACHER’S, ignormaus

pontifexa

And also by the fact that he can’t spell ignoramus.

http://twitter.com/FractusLearning Nick Grantham

Boy is our face red… Correction made and those responsible have been forced to write 300 lines:
– Apostrophe before the s to show singular possession
– Apostrophe before the s to show singular possession
– Apostrophe before the s to show singular possession
…..

All of these except maybe #3 are hardly that geeky – every transgender person, woman, man and their dogs are on twitter, facebook etc etc. It’d be more geeky if you have to use Freenode to contact your teacher because they hate Zuckerberg and refuse to use proprietary platforms. Your essays are returned unmarked with a note demanding that next time you use a generic text program rather than Microsoft Word, and they’ve got an Arduino-powered laser pointer built into their sleeve.

Debbie Carter

Same rule for #4…

http://twitter.com/FractusLearning Nick Grantham

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